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The colour of the larva is very nearly the same as that of 

 the green pod of the food-plant, A. currassavica, and is doubtless 

 protective. Certainly they are very difficult to detect as they 

 hang on the growing plant. 



St. Saviour's Parish, Berbice, British Guiana. 



NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FROM FORMOSA. 

 By A. E. WiLEMAN, F.E.S. 



Boralia irrorata, sp. n. 



J . Fore wings pale grey-brown, faintly tinged with pink, finely 

 irrorated with black ; a small black discoidal spot ; postmedial line 

 represented by black dots on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 

 six, thence almost parallel with termen ; black dots between- the 

 veins on termen ; fringes whitish at tips. Hind wings whitish, 

 tinged with fuscous, except termen and fringes. Under side whitish ; 

 fore wings suffused with brownish on costal area and clouded with 

 blackish on the disc ; costal area of hind wings powdered with 

 brownish. 



Expanse, 35 millim. 



Collection number, 1485. 



A male specimen from Kanshirei, April 27th, 1908. 



Cirphis suhdecoray sp. n. 



<? . Fore wings pale brown, faintly pink-tinged, costa broadly 

 whitish ; a broad, darker, shade-like streak from base of the wing to 

 apex, where it meets a short, oblique, pale streak ; veins whitish, 

 with dark longitudinal lines between them on outer half of the wings ; 

 dorsal area slightly darker ; postmedial line indicated by black dots 

 chiefly towards the costa; terminal line blackish, with black dots 

 upon it between the veins. Hind wings fuscous, whitish towards 

 the base. Under side silvery except at base and on costa of the fore 

 wings, and the base and dorsum of hind wings. 



Expanse, 38 millim. 



Collection number, 139. 



A male specimen from Koannania, June 22nd, 1906. 



Trigojiophora clava, sp. n. 

 5 . Fore wings pale brown, slightly pinkish tinged, patched with 

 darker brown on dorsum towards base, on median area except towards 

 costa, and on the terminal area below vein six ; the dorsal patch tri- 

 angular, its base black ; reniform and orbicular of the ground colour, 

 clouded with darker, outlined in black, lower extremities united ; 

 claviform whitish, outlined in black ; subbasal line black, double, 

 angled below costa, not reaching dorsum ; antemedial line black, 

 double, curved; postmedial Hne black, double, oblique, elbowed be- 

 tween veins four and five, terminating on dorsum towards the ante- 



